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Keith Molden

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Yesterday I decided I couldn't stand my shop being cluttered any longer so I called a Grandson and got a Grandson in law and began removing stuff. We got a lot of the equipment such as welders and tractor the I've been working on out then loaded a wagon with small stuff from the floor. Took the welding table out too. Today I'm going to get the skid steer in there again and remove the tire changer and press (I'll leave the lathe where it is then pressure wash the whole shop. I found stuff I haven't seen for the last 3 or 4 years. I think I'll be able to get stuff in there to work on once we're done.
 
I'm waiting for someone to invite a self cleaning device to harvest a 5 gallon bucket full of dirt weekly from my pole barn floor.
George
 
I did the same 2 weeks ago. I hate throwing things out, but I didn't even know I had some of the stuff. I save to much. Might need it someday.
 
When I built pole barn
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I wanted a second floor to store things that I might need someday. The Kubota is the elevator to the second floor.
George
 
That dreaded job is staring me down daily!

Going to be forced to do it soon, moisture is getting to the sheetrock ceiling, starting to sag, afraid it will fall someday.

Guess that will be the day I'm forced to get into it!
 
A clean workshop is a wonderful thing!

I hate tripping over junk left on the floor and never being able to find anything.

If you (your shop) looks good then you feel good! and it feels good to look good!
 
I try to keep it straight and clean through out the year. I actually have two shops on my place. I do a really good cleaning at the beginning of the winter then again late spring.
 
(quoted from post at 10:34:04 04/04/21) I still haven't found where I put things from my last shop cleanup two years ago. Probably covered them up with the new junk I hauled in.
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ou sound a little like me. If I faul to put something back in the same place I found it, then I might just as well have thrown it away. No matter how un-organize /illogical that place may seem, item needs to go back exactly where it was before. Make no exceptions!
 
My first job in a tractor shop, the owner told me; I've never fired anyone for sweeping the floor or cleaning the work benches. It has stuck with me for nearly 60 years.
 
George. Nice tractor. I have a much smaller one for our big garden. L3200 with FEL. The FEL has been a life safer on many occasions. Wingnut
 
It's good to have help, makes the job easier and I feel more motivated if someone else is around. Added bonus is they can often take stuff that I want to get rid of and that they want. Have to start in on "phase III" of my cleaning. Came to a standstill after Phase II.

Gerrit
 
I need to clean my shop but it will take me a whole summer vacation to do it and at that time Im busy making hay or combining. It has been on my to do list for at least five years since I had a young heifer walk in there. It was a disaster. I had a roll of fence wire hanging on the vise and she stuck her head in it and panicked. Tore down the whole work bench and everything that was on it. Tools and parts, and shelves and drawers with bolts, drill bits, and all kinds of stuff now on the floor in one big mess with all the other things on the floor. As if that was not enough she also peed on it in her despair.
Since that I have not had a real shop to work in and very often when I need something I know I have it somewhere I just cant find it in all that mess.
 
Clean out the shop was the first thing on every to do list I made for 30 years. Finally cleaned it out
2 yrs ago, I had to sell it to clean it out. I bought it partially full, I found stuff that I had never seen before. Took me 6 months to clean everything out, outside and inside. Left with the last load 6 pm before the midnight deadline.
I do miss it some of the time.
 
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